Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-01-14

MOHNlS d!iu 5GW0IlGy udyS slnsGH6 union
army, holding four commissions in the vol
unteer service. He is a farmer by profes.
| sion, and was elected to his present posi-
| ton upon the farmers" ticket He has a
wife and four children.
;5si5 .s$,s THOMAS NJ. ELLIOTT,
l of Elliott Ransom county. Seventeenth
district, was born at Goderich, Ontario, in
1854 He came to Dakotaifron his native
country in; the spring Of 1880, with car
load of horses for sale, which business he
continued d0fing the summer. Settled in
| his present location in the fall Of that year.
He has never previously held any public
office He still continues his business of
horse dealing IT, connection with farming.
| He has never taken unto himself wife.
RONALD M'DoNELL,
of Valley City. Barnes county, Seven
teenth district, is Of Scotch nationality and
| was born in Canada in 1843. He came to
Dakota from Michigan, where he lived ten
| years. in 1871. He has never held any pub
lie office of Importance. He is farmer by
profession. st :1
d. W. sPRAGUE, ~
of Hope, Steele county, Eighteenth dis
trict, was born in Onondaga county, N. Y,
March rs, 1888. He has high school edu-
cation and was graduated from the normal
school at Albany. He left the mercantile
business and came to st. Cloud, Minn.,
where he spent two years in the numbering
business. He was elected superintendent
OF schools and principal of the high school
Of st. Cloud, in 1859, which position he held
and An0ka and in the Curtis Business col
lege. He was elected superintendent of
schools of Fillmore county In 1882 he
| came to Hope, where he has since been en-
gagged IN cultivating a section of land, of
which he is part owner.
FREDERICK H. ADAMS,
of Cooperstown, Griggs county, Eighteenth
district, is native Of the Green Mountain
state and is IS years of age. He has been
in the territory eight years, having come
here from California in 1878. He has been
admitted to the practice of law, and be.
sides being an attorney is the editor of the
Grlggs County Courier. His course of life
| remains untrammeled by s'better half.''
WILLIAM H. FELLOWS,
of Larimore, Grand Forks county, Nine
teenth district, was born in Fulton, Illinois.
He came to Dakota in 1882 and has never
previously held public office of conse-
quence He is a lawyer by profession and
knows not the practical significance of con-
jugal bliss. i
L.O. WYMAN,
OF Holmes, Grand Forks county, Nineteenth
district, is forty-fye years of age This is
the first public Office of Importance that he
has ever held. Agriculture is his industrial
pursuit = A..
D.W.#ENs1GN,
of Devils Lake, Ramsey county, Twentieth
district, is S5 years of age. He came to the
territory from Iowa five years ago. He has
held position in the Devils Lake land Of
flee.
DONALD STEWART,
of Mimic, Nv alsh county, Twentieth dis
trict, was born in Scotland in 1881. He
came to Dakota from Ontario in 1873. He
is one of the successful farmers of Walsh
county. He was a member of the house
two years ago, and his return to this seS-
sion is an evidence of the satisfaction his
work then gave his constituents.
JOHN BIDLAKE,
of Olga, Cavalier county, Twenty-first dis
trict, was born in Hereford, England, in
1858: He is one of the successful farmers
of his district. He is a member of the mi
nority party of the legislature.
JOHN A. ELY,
of Bottineau, Rolette county, Twenty-first
district, was born in Missouri in 1885.
where he lived until he was 46 years of
age, when he came to Dakota. He served
IN Cne war three years, being captain in
the Third Missouri regiment. He has been
a member of the county board of commits
sloners; is farmer and storkman. He is
another of the seven democrats in this
body.
FRANCIS NJ. SHOOK,
OF Minnewaukan, Benson county, Twenty
second district, was born in Franklin
county, Ind, in 1916, and is of German de-
scent. He is one of Dakota's pioneers,
having come to the territory in 1867 He
held the offices of assessor and justice of
the peace in Minnesota, and has been treas
urer of Benson county. He served in the
war as a member of the Fifty-second Indi-
and volunteer infantry and the Fourth
United States colored heavy artillery. His
business pursuit is bookkeeper and mer-
chant, but is at present engaged in farm
ing.
DAVID s. DoDDs,
OF Lakota, Nelson county, Twenty-second
district, is foreigner, having been born in
Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1916. He came to
Dakota from Kansas, in August, 1879. He
was chairman of the first board of county
commissioners of Nelson county and has
held other minor offices. During the years
1864 and 1865 he was in the quartermasters
department at Little Rock, Ark. He has
been admitted to the practice of law. but
is farming at present.
ERAsTUs A. WILLIAMS,
of Bismarck, Burleigh county, Twenty
third district, was born in Mystic, Conn.,, in
1851. He came to Wisconsin in 1871 and
remained until 1866, when he removed to
Freeport, III. He was located there six
years, coming to Yankton May 8, 1871,
where he resided until June, 1872, when he
came to Bismarck. He was member of
the house in 1928 and of the council in
1874-5. He was again member of the
house in 1928, being it's speaker, and in
1894 5. Since coming to the territory he
has been engaged in the practice of law.
He is, as will be seen from the above rec
| ord, one of the most experienced legisla-
tors in the territory.
FRANCIS GREENE.
Mandan, Morton county, Twenty-third of
district, was born in the county of Wei
lington, Canada, in 1S47. He lived on a
farm there, and before he became of age
emgrated to the States. He came to Illi-
| nois and learned telegraphy, paying his liy-